I don't think I can have lower expectations
No seriously, the only one I"m really concerned with is Jayden. Everyone else is fine where they are. Grace will be beginning Bigger in a few weeks, which means we are just doing khan academy videos for math, starting with dictation next week, AWANA, and finishing up the Emerging Readers (because I messed up and forgot about them a lot... she has two books left.) But since shes' mid-second grade age wise, and starting on Bigger, and we school year round I'm good with that. Julianna's mid-K and mid LHFHG... I'd be ok with her not finishing until the end of her first grade year, so I'm very much not concerned with her. And then we obviously have Evie, who I think I'll have two K years for her.
But Jayden is mid fourth grade, and only on unit 23 of Preparing. Which in theory would be fine, perfect even. But, she's been doing Preparing since January 16th 2012 (based on my blog post the 20th saying we just finished our first week)... So yes... we have literally taken a year to do 2/3 of a guide. We obviously cannot keep up with that pace. It has been fine so far because she really needed that extra time. But if we don't finish Preparing in the next 3-4 months and then stay on track the rest of the time, she won't finish all the guides before it's time for her to graduate!
I really don't see how people do it who only school during the school year and have other outside activities!! We do something on Wed night, Thursday morning, Thursday night, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning. So in theory we'd have four days free of doing school. In theory we should get through roughly three guides in two years. At least 2.5 guides.
UGH... I guess I'm just feeling rushed now that I"ve realized that having her finish Preparing by the end of 4th grade doesn't really give us wiggle room any more.